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Didn't get time to try this out myself today, but did see the uploaded bug reports from your testing.

Looks like the camera driver is somehow marking itself as being disconnected after SharpCap has connected to it. The bug reports were all 'Not Connected' problems and they were all happening in parts of the SharpCap code that can only be reached when the ASCOM camera is successfully connected, so I am assuming that the driver either says it connects successfully but doesn't or it disconnects itself somehow without being asked.

I found the driver to only work intermittently for my Canon camera. I suspect this may be the result of SharpCap running exposures in very quick succession which the driver/camera may not be expecting. I do plan to test further when I have some more time.

Just an update to say that I have been working on making SharpCap work better with this driver (and working on making some changes to the driver to make it more robust, faster, etc).

With my own tweaked version of the driver (code available from https://github.com/rwg0/ASCOM.DSLR) I can now get pretty good results with the latest SharpCap 3.2 beta build (3.2.5708) when using a Canon camera in non-live mode. I have been sending my code tweaks to the original author of the driver - hopefully he will include them.

This is very much 'without warranty' - if it works, great. If it breaks then you get to keep both halves...

My steps for making it work:

* Install the DSLR driver
* Install the latest SharpCap Beta
* Connect the camera via USB, put it in manual focus and M mode and turn it on
* Run SharpCap and select the ASCOM DSLR driver
* The camera will take 2-3 images while the driver queries various info about the device and saves it. This will happen *before* the controls show in SharpCap
* SharpCap may crash at this point - don't worry, it will (hopefully) only happen once, just restart SharpCap
* After the first few setup exposures, the camera should work correctly. You should be able to change exposure and gain (ISO). Note that the ISO used will be the closest value your camera supports - not necessarily the value shown.